Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] nested list termination

[Dave P. <dav...@gm...>]

On 9 September 2014 02:30, Waylan Limberg <way...@ic...> wrote:
> This is definitely not a bug. For some reason newcomers to markdown always
> try to add extra blank lines to break a list/codeblock/blockquote into two
> separate blocks. There is simply nothing in the syntax [rules] to support
> that however. And in fact, the original implementation (markdown.pl) does
> not support such a concept. This is simply a fact of how Markdown works.

So the intention is to copy markdown.pl, bugs and all?


> Extra blank lines (more than one) have no implied meaning  Once you get used
> to the idea it becomes easy enough to work with.

a problem to address with a kludge?

>
> Some people have been known to use HTML comments to get around this.
> Remember raw HTML is passed through as is. And an HTML comment does not get
> displayed in the browser. If you want to break one list into two with
> nothing between, insert a raw HTML comment between them.

One kludge.

>
> And as you seem to be confused about why the `<p>`  tags are introduced,
> reread the section of the rules on [lists]. Particularly the part that
> starts with this line:
>
>> If list items are separated by blank lines, Markdown will wrap the items
> in `<p>` tags in the HTML output.

Which to me seems quite illogical.


regards


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